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From the safety and comfort (ie warmth) of your own livingroom, I hope.

It was only 24 below in my old hometown, not too far up the road from the game. Back in the day, we would call that a warm spell. I remember the loud snapping sound our house made when it got that cold.

Meade is making some kind of "championship" pizza. He bought 4 secret ingredients. I don't know what he's doing. We watch with a DVR assist and skip commercials, so we're on a delay and catch up cycle which has him at the moment engaging in some intense pizza-related activity.

It's all about things that begin with the letter P today here at Meadhouse. Packers, pizza...

Gerald Louis "Jerry" Kramer was one the best known of all Packers for several reasons. He was the author of “Instant Replay” which was one of the first “inside” tell-all’s about professional football. And he was the basis for the character of “Kramer” on the TV show Seinfeld. The team would scream out his name “Kramer” as he burst into a room. He was famous for get rich quick schemes, wild frizzy hair, bowling shirts and disliking black people. Thus frizzy haired bigots wearing a bowling shirt who hate black people are nicknamed “Kramer” in the NFL. (Is That You Bubba?, Nicknames of the NFL , Doris Kearns Goodwin, Sporting News Press 2010)

Dan “Chester” Devine was one of the most unpopular coaches in the history of the NFL. He of course suffered from the fact that he was the coach that replaced Vince Lombardi. As we all know it is better to replace the guy who replaces the great coach as Ray Handley and whoever replaced Tom Landry can tell you. Dan was nicknamed “Chester” after the character in Gunsmoke who walked with a limp as Coach Devine did after John Brockington broke his leg on the sideline because he traded twenty draft choices for a washed up John Hadl.(Is That You Bubba?, Nicknames of the NFL , Doris Kearns Goodwin, Sporting News Press 2010)

You should be rooting for the Jets, but the reason is because you want both of Brett Favre's former teams in the Super Bowl without him...that'll sting more than the publication of the crocs/crotch-shots.

Packers are my go-team team after the Saints are out. I'd like to see the the Steelers over the Jets, though. I'm no Roethlisberger fan, but I like Steelers fans, and the whole working class vibe of Pittsburgh.

I was playing golf yesterday (Saturday) down here in AZ; the guy who runs the pro shop was wearing an Evil Chicago Bears cap. He said it didn't look good for the Packers, and he was holding a reservation for a foursome on Tuesday for Aaron Rodgers.

So, I guess there's a tee time available on Tuesday in case anyone wants to come down and play...

@Sixty Grit caught me just as I was ready to pack it in for the night - I will say though that I am not as liberal as I once was - my experience here has taught me some things for sure. I will ask ma femme about the wv: chiret. Bonne nuit.

Bad call the grounding? The one with no receiver in no less than 16 yards?

Yup. The same one where the receiever is tripped up and on the ground. Gee, no wonder he wasn't where he was supposed to be. And what about all the other games where a reciever is overthrown by 16 yards?

Look, I admit it could go either way, but it turned a 3rd an 1 into a 4th and 1. Let them play the game.